Wriggled vs Slithered - What's the difference?
wriggled | slithered |
(wriggle)
To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.
* Jonathan Swift
* {{quote-book
, year=1972
, author=Carlos CastaƱeda
, title=The teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge
, page=78
To cause to or make something wriggle.
(slither)
To move about smoothly and from side to side.
To slide
* 2003 , J. Flash, An American Savage
As verbs the difference between wriggled and slithered
is that wriggled is past tense of wriggle while slithered is past tense of slither.wriggled
English
Verb
(head)wriggle
English
Verb
(wriggl)- Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.
- Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted.
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- He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.
Derived terms
* wriggler * wrigglyAnagrams
*slithered
English
Verb
(head)slither
English
Verb
(en verb)- I bent down and with both hands I scooped up as much of this pissshit as I could. The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes. It was slithering through inbetween my fingers.